ObjectDock freeware beta

https://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock
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Stardock has had ObjectDock floating around internally for a long while. But with the recent releases of a host of "dock" programs we figured it was time to go ahead and let people give it a try.

ObjectDock is a task manager / program launcher that does it with style. It was created to test out new Object Desktop technologies for seeing what could and couldn't be done reasonably on Windows 2000/XP. It's inspired by the dock on MacOS X (which is one of the reasons why we've never made it available previously and why it's freeware).

Feel free to post news on this elsewhere. This isn't a "product", it's more of a technology demo that we've made freely available. Make sure you read the page carefully.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Very very good! Still a little unstable when minimizing windows from the dock, but works nicely! We now need themes, and the ability to move it around!!! I still need a way to see my systray though... it should be added someway! Anyway, again thanks for the great work, and thanks for releasing it to the public... we're not worthy !
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Great work, but one question....can I add icons to the choose image field?
Adding a new shortcut w/ give the applications default icon, but is there a way to change this without using the pre-selected icons?
Thanks
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Great stuff pulled here by the experts. Only I wish it was more customizable like positioning and skins. Anyhow fun thing.I can hardly wait for the sequel to it.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i'm usually not a huge fan of stardock's software, but this one blew me away, A very nice emulation that's beaten only by Y'z version. A little more work to do on it and it will be a #1 product.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
@Cheetah : Copy Pics You want into the the ObjectDock folder, using a subfolder like 'My Pics' or something else.


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Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
BTW, I just used a little ResHack (first time ever) on the exe : https://www.wincustomize.com/window.asp?Cmd=PREVIEW&source=http://skins.wincustomize.com/c242/screenshots/c242UM_Dock.jpg

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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Umh, http://skins.wincustomize.com/c242/screenshots/c242UM_Dock.jpg

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Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
how did you turn the background grey?, very cool buy the way
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'd like to move this app on top of the taskbar. Can anyone help me?
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I really like it and it has GREAT potential with minor improvements. I really need it to dock elsewhere. How do I move it?
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
@Paul : I changed some bitmaps in ObjectDock.exe using ResHack.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't know if anyone's noticed this or not, but if you grab the little vertical line between the active tasks and the first icon (it's near the left hand side, if you have at least one program running)... by dragging the mouse up and down, you can resize the overall dock.... very cool

you can actually make it really small, but you have to do it by clicking the top of the line, and dragging down as far as your mouse will go - you may have to do it multiple times, since your mouse won't go down lower than the bottom of the screen
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Dixon, you can do the same thing by adjusting the Normal Dock Item Size in the config.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
very sweet. Now if it only had a built in right click start menu. I dont like running more than one skin app (OB), and im using wb at the moment
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wow this is neat.
Looks like it would be fairly easy to skin.
I love the screenshot as background for minimized windows.

I need two things before dumping the starbar entirely:

1. A start button

2. Systray
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Try ObjectBar. (www.objectbar.net). It can take care of the rest.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is really cool. It would be cool to have a right click close/minimize/maximize menu but I can live without it. Very sweet app, I think I am going to use this. Now I just need to figure out how to do the start button only with objectbar or find a way to use desktopx to get what I am missing with the start button.
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
maybe someone can make an object bar theme to go with objectDock
the object bar can have the systray and probably startmenu
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Very nice, curry and rice - lap it up in chunks!

The Custom Engine works a treat on my old 400Mhz, 192MEG RAM, 8MEG Graphics, steam-driven clunker.
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I didn't think I was going to find a use for this but it is wayyy cool!

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Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
if only it could work on win98.I know that that it needs the alpha blending sh*t but still, would there be a 9x version in the future?